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White House salary analysis

By Chip Oglesby July 15, 2017

I realized recently that I don’t have a data science ‘portfolio.’ Most of the
analysis that I’ve done is usually for work and since it contains company data
it’s not something that I can normally share publicly.

So recently I’ve began working more on pieces that I can share to display
my analysis chops.

This most recent dataset is an analysis of White House Salaries between 2001 and
2017, save 2002, which I couldn’t find online. (If you’re able to find a copy,
please send it to me and let me know. Thanks!).

First I began just by looking at staff sizes and median pay of all employees
by year, president and party.

You can see how things have changed since 2001 in these two charts:

Interestingly enough, the charts represent the exact same data, but visualize it
differently. Most people are use to the bar chart, while the boxplot gives you
a much better view of what’s going on.